On Wednesday 12 May 2010 2:30:04 am RAULO Emmanuel IT&l...@bs wrote: > > My reading of the docs indicate that event.packet-data is a enet_uint8 *, > > which is typecast from a pointer to char. This implies that I should be > > able to cast it to void* > > Yup, any pointer type can be cast to void*. > > > void *buffer; > > > > buffer = (void) event.packet->data; > > > > But this didn't seem to work. Like I said, I'm a bit rusty... So I was > > on the right track? I just have to fiddle with syntax, then. > > That should be buffer = (void*)event.packet->data; as you want a pointer. > You don't even have to cast explicitely as void* is a "more general" > type than uint8* so buffer=event.packet->data; will work as well. > Explicit cast is only needed with pointers when the destination type is > "more specific" than the original type, e.g. struct SomeStruct > *structPtr = (struct SomeStruct*)buffer;
So, I need to get a refresher on C pointers. I KNEW this was done all the time, I just couldn't get it to work. Thanks for the quick tutorial, btw. -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl. _______________________________________________ ENet-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss
